Yum'my turtles breaking Plesk

After some recent downtime due to an overzealous upgrade cycle (aka "Oh I won't need to backup first..") I feel it warranted to put a quick post about how I went about fixing things.

How the problem started

It started off with me deciding to add a 3rd party repos by Atomic Rocket Turtle to yum (without really doing much research into things) I proceeded to upgrade my packages, and go on with life as normal (or so I thought)

A few days later I decided I should probably also upgrade Plesk to the latest version as well. Most of the upgrade process went through, but then ended up crashing out near the end.

Adding to the reasons why I love Plesk, it created some log files for me as in the process of dying:

/tmp/plesk10.4.4installation.log

/tmp/plesk10.4.4installation_problems.log

Taking a look at the intallation_problems.log, I got my first glimpse into what went wrong: